SAN JOSE — As Allen Crabbe and Justin Cobbs go, so too goes the Cal men’s basketball team. The 12-seeded Bears were going to need excellent performances from their All-Pac-12 duo to upend No. 4 seed Syracuse in their NCAA Tournament round of 32 game on Saturday. Yet, on the Read More…
SAN JOSE — Simply look at the seeding, and No. 12 seeded Cal’s win over No. 5 seeded UNLV looks like your classic first-round NCAA Tournament upset. But was it really that unexpected? Was it that inexplicable that the Bears would pull out the upset? Cal rode a seven-game winning Read More…
SAN JOSE — Allen Crabbe clapped his hands, pointed to the crowd and pulled up his jersey, biting the top of it so the “California” on his chest was visible for all to see. Four days after Crabbe talked about the Cal men’s basketball team’s opportunity to put its name Read More…
Last year, Justin Cobbs did not watch any of the NCAA Tournament’s opening weekend games. After South Florida crushed the Cal men’s basketball team in the play-in game, the Bears’ point guard did not feel like watching basketball for the next week. The wound was still fresh. Still is. The Read More…
LAS VEGAS — It did not matter that the Cal men’s basketball team had beaten Utah twice comfortably during the regular season. The Pac-12 tournament is a completely different animal. In a tournament chalk full of down-to-the-wire action, the Bears’ Thursday quarterfinal matchup was no exception, as the tenth-seeded Utes Read More…
The Cal men’s basketball team was on a roll, the winners of seven straight before coming to a sudden arboreal stop against Stanford last Wednesday, leaving the squad one game short of a conference title. While the streak put the Bears in line for an at-large bid in the NCAA Read More…
It is becoming a trend: The Pac-12 Player of the Year is once again a Cal Bear. Allen Crabbe was honored as the league’s top player Monday, following Jerome Randle in 2010 and Jorge Gutierrez in 2012 as the third Cal player in four years to win the award. The Read More…
“It was bound to happen. The Cal men’s basketball team could not keep winning forever. As Stanford’s lead kept building and building in a raucous Haas Pavilion, the Bears’ Pac-12 title hopes softly faded away Wednesday night. Losing to the Cardinal is bad enough for Cal. Losing 83-70 in the Read More…
It was bound to happen. The Cal men’s basketball team could not keep winning forever. As Stanford’s lead kept building and building in a raucous Haas Pavilion, the Bears’ Pac-12 title hopes softly faded away Wednesday night. Losing to the Cardinal is bad enough for Cal. Losing 83-70 in the Read More…
Make that seven in a row. Defense powered the Cal men’s basketball team to another win on Saturday afternoon, this time a 62-46 triumph over Colorado at Haas Pavilion. With their seventh-straight victory, and ninth in their last 10 games, the Bears (20-9, 12-5 in the Pac-12) have secured at Read More…
